World Politics

Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the country's top commander in Afghanistan on Sunday tried to revive support for the fight against the Taliban as thoughts on Remembrance Sunday turned to those killed. Public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 percent do not understand why the troops are fighting there, a ComRes poll showed. Some 64 percent agreed that "the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable", up six percent from July, while 27 percent disagreed, down four percent. Similar numbers said British forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible, with 63 percent agreeing and 31 percent disagreeing. Some 54 ... Read Full Story

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband and its top commander in Afghanistan on Sunday tried to revive support for the fight against the Taliban as thoughts on Remembrance Sunday turned to those killed. British public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 percent do not understand why the troops are fighting there, a ComRes poll showed. Some 64 percent agreed that "the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable", up six percent from July, while 27 percent disagreed, down four percent. Similar numbers said British forces should be withdrawn as quickly as possible, with 63 percent agreeing and 31 percent disagreeing. Some ... Read Full Story

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall. Developments in both stalemates are expected in the coming days with international patience running out over Iran's refusal to come clean about its suspected nuclear program and North Korea's refusal to return to stalled disarmament talks. As Clinton prepared to depart early Sunday for Berlin, U.S. officials said they anticipated that the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog soon would give up hope that Iran ... Read Full Story

AP – Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall. Read more from the original source: Iran, North Korea top Clinton’s overseas agenda (AP) Related Posts November 8, 2009 -- West Africa’s last giraffes make surprise comeback (AP) AP - A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. ... November 8, ... Read Full Story

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel's U.N. ambassador complained to the United Nations on Thursday about what she said was an Iranian attempt to skirt a U.N. arms embargo and supply weapons to the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. Israeli officials said on Wednesday that naval commandos had seized a ship carrying hundreds of tons of Iranian-supplied arms, including rockets, to the Shi'ite Muslim group. "These grave violations constitute a threat to peace and security, as well as non-compliance with international legal obligations," Israel's U.N. ambassador, Gabriela Shalev, said in a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "The weapons -- concealed, wrapped and declared as civilian cargo ... Read Full Story